“I know, Victoria, I can sense how upset you are, I know
this is real, I just, I have no idea who you’re talking about.”
“Mike, my partner, Michael Rizzitello. The guy who sits at
that desk?” Derrick turned and looked over Mike’s desk before gazing back at
Victoria with a shrug.
Retrieving her phone, she pulled up an image from her camera
roll, but every photo she’d taken of Mike and every picture of them together was
gone. “This doesn’t make sense. My pictures…how is this possible? What is going
on?”
“I don’t know, Baby, but we’ll figure this out. I promise,” he said, pulling her into his arms as he swept her hair behind her ear. “I don’t want you to worry about anything.” Moving forward, he looked around the area in front of Mike’s desk and sighed. “You found the phone here?”